Rick Moen writes:
>Quoting William R Ward (bill at wards.net):
>>> There's a newsgroup?
>>Mentioned on the CABAL Web page, and on BALE. This mailing list is (by
>intention) bidirectionally gated. Something broke the news -> list
>half of the gate, some months back.
You could make the newsgroup moderated and set the mailing list
address as the moderator address.
People still use newsgroups? I thought Usenet was dead, thanks to all
the spammers.
>> Sounds like it would probably be best to just disable posting to the
>> group until the issue can be resolved...
>>I could do that, but then it would be pretty difficult to debug --
>and the effort of doing so -- and remove/disable language on various Web
>pages -- would be wasted by the need to un-do all of that same effort
>the moment it's fixed.
Well, you could do like I said above, and create a separate list and
newsgroup to debug with. Never debug in production. :-)
>I mentioned to Daniel (in person) when he brought this up that I
>_thought_ I'd mentioned the breakage on the newgroup side, for the
>benefit of anyone trying to participate, there. He says I forgot to do
>so. I apologised for my oversight. Which brings us to Daniel's "When's
>it going to be fixed?" and my "I have no way of telling you that."
If you're too busy to fix it, that's fine - volunteer efforts are like
that. But don't leave a broken system up when there's an easy workaround.
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